interdimensionalmemeHow can I quickly "unclog" firefox when it runs out of memory (with 1000/2000 tabs)
ArcticAmphibianA tab suspender extension might help some, but there’s only so much you can do to minimize the impact of thousand(s) of tabs. Cleaning out old tabs more frequently is probably a better habit.
I tried a tab suspender, but it would replace tabs with a moz:// address that would end up breaking all my tabs when I copy & pasted them from a text file. Also tab suspender doesn’t work once firefox gets into that state. I think the internal scheduler is trying to load tabs and discarding them as fast as possible. What I need is a big “stop button” that stop it all from at least trying to load new tabs.
I think what’s happenning is when I merge all windows, many gets get woken up and, like the youtube tabs they seem to gobble up 2 to 4 gb of ram while initializing to that freezes everything.
It’s making it really hard to get to 10k 20k tabs when it really falls apart like that with not even 2k tabs.
20k tabs? I struggle to see how someone could go through that many tabs, even over a long period of time. Your workflow is something the browser was never made to handle.
Try some popular non-Mozilla tab suspend extensions. I doubt that they all operate the same way.
The thing is that, it does work fine as long as I don’t disturb too many tabs.
It’s the action of agglomerating all tabs to a single window that wakes up a bunch of tabs unnecessarily
Surely there’s a shortcut or something to “stop all tabs” immediately.
I would even take a “discard all tabs” to flush the tab memory.
It seems to be what happens after a while, but it takes more than 5 minutes to happen on its own.